Mark Bergfeld suggests the quest for a better quality of life deserves as much political recognition as climbing a career ladder
Gaby Hinsliff’s portrait of Claire Ainsley and her latest book Control: How We Lost It and How to Take It Back (‘The world is out of control’: how political strategist Claire Ainsley is challenging the left to take it back, 3 November) leaves a crucial question unanswered: can working people exercise control collectively over those in power?
Reviewing her earlier book The New Working Class for the Global Labour Journal in 2020, I argued that she treated working-class people primarily as voters to be won over rather than people capable of organising to change society.